Board of Directors

Andrew Feldman
Cerebras Co-founder, Chief Executive Officer, President & Chairman of the Board

Andrew Feldman is one of our co-founders and Chairman of our Board of Directors and has served as our Chief Executive Officer, President and as a member of our board of directors since April 2016. 

From February 2012 to June 2014, Mr. Feldman served as Corporate Vice President and General Manager at Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., a semiconductor company. From November 2007 to February 2012, Mr. Feldman served as Chief Executive Officer at SeaMicro, a dense microserver company acquired by AMD. From August 2003 to December 2006, Mr. Feldman served as Vice President, Marketing and Product Management at Force10 Networks, Inc., a computer networking company acquired by Dell, Inc. From March 2000 to August 2003, Mr. Feldman served as Vice President, Corporate Marketing and Corporate Development at Riverstone Networks Inc., a networking switching hardware company. 

Mr. Feldman holds an M.B.A. from Stanford University and a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Stanford University.

Chairman of the Board
Paul Auvil
Former Chief Financial Officer of Proofpoint and VMware

Paul Auvil has been a non-executive member of our board of directors since July 2024 and serves on our Audit and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees. 

Mr. Auvil previously served as Chief Financial Officer of Proofpoint, Inc., an enterprise security company, from March 2007 to February 2023. From September 2006 to March 2007, Mr. Auvil was an entrepreneur-in-residence with Benchmark, a venture capital firm. From August 2002 to July 2006, Mr. Auvil served as Chief Financial Officer at VMware, Inc., a cloud-computing and virtualization company. From April 1998 to January 2002, Mr. Auvil served as Chief Financial Officer at Vitria Technology, Inc., an eBusiness platform company. Mr. Auvil held various executive positions at VLSI Technology, Inc., a semiconductor and circuit manufacturing company, from August 1988 to March 1998, including serving as the Vice President of the Internet and Secure Products Division. Mr. Auvil has served as a member of the boards of directors of Modern Treasury Corp., a fintech company, since October 2024, Chainalysis Inc., a blockchain data platform, since November 2024, and Elastic N.V. (NYSE: ESTC), a platform for search-powered solutions, since October 2023. Mr. Auvil previously served as a member of the boards of directors of 1Life Healthcare, Inc. (doing business as One Medical), a primary care organization acquired by Amazon.com, Inc., Quantum Corporation, a data storage company, Marin Software Incorporated, a cloud-based advertisement management platform company, and OpenTV Corp., a provider of interactive television software and services. 

Mr. Auvil holds an M.M. from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and a B.E. in Electrical Engineering from Dartmouth College.

Elena Donio
Former Senior Executive of Twilio and Former CEO of Axiom Global

Elena Donio has been a non-executive member of our board of directors since April 2026 and serves on our Audit and Compensation Committees. 

Ms. Donio previously served in various roles at Twilio Inc., a cloud-based communications platform, including as President, Data and Applications from February 2023 to December 2023 and as President, Revenue from May 2022 to February 2023. Prior to Twilio, Ms. Donio served as Chief Executive Officer Axiom Global, Inc., a provider of technology-enabled legal services, from November 2016 to July 2020, and as a member of its board of directors. From January 1998 to November 2016, Ms. Donio served in various roles at Concur Technologies, Inc., a business travel and expense management software company acquired by SAP SE in 2014, including as Concur President, Executive Vice President, and General Manager of Worldwide Small and Mid-Sized Businesses, and Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Ms. Donio previously served as a member of the board of directors of Twilio. Ms. Donio serves as a member of the boards of directors of several private companies, including Databricks, Inc., Plaid Inc., and Benchling, Inc. 

Ms. Donio holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of California, San Diego.

Lior Susan
Founder and Managing Partner of Eclipse

Lior Susan has been a non-executive member of our board of directors since April 2023 and serves on our Compensation and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees. 

Mr. Susan has served as Founder and Managing Partner of Eclipse, an investment firm, since January 2015. Mr. Susan is a co-founder of Bright Machines, Inc., a software company, and has served as its Executive Chairman since January 2018 and as its Chief Executive Officer from January 2018 to May 2018, from December 2021 to December 2022, and from August 2023 to the present. From June 2012 to January 2015, Mr. Susan served as Founder and General Partner at LabIX, the hardware investment platform of Flextronics International Ltd., an end-to-end supply chain solutions company. Mr. Susan served as an Advisor at Intucell Ltd., a self-optimizing network software company, from April 2008 until it was sold to Cisco in 2012. Mr. Susan has served as a member of the board of directors of Owlet, Inc. (NYSE: OWLT), a health technology company, since March 2015, and has served as the chairman of its board of directors since July 2021. He also serves as a member of the boards of directors of several private companies, including Augury, Inc., Bright Machines, Inc., Cybertoka Ltd., Datapelago, Inc, Dutch Pet, Inc., Prime Minute, Inc., Skyryse, Inc., The Heart Company, Inc., and Usrsa Major Technologies, Inc. Mr. Susan previously served as a member of the board of directors of Lucira Health, Inc., a medical diagnostics company. 

Mr. Susan is a former member of an elite Special Forces unit in the Israel Defense Force.

 

Steve Vassallo
General Partner of Foundation Capital

Steve Vassallo has been a non-executive member of our board of directors since May 2016 and serves on our Compensation and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees. 

Mr. Vassallo has served as a general partner and in various other roles at Foundation Capital, a venture capital firm, since October 2007. From September 2004 to September 2006, Mr. Vassallo served as Vice President of Product and Engineering at Ning Interactive Inc., a social platform. From May 1999 to September 2002, Mr. Vassallo served as director of engineering at Immersion Corporation, a haptic technology company. Mr. Vassallo previously served as a member of the board of directors of Sunrun Inc. Mr. Vassallo also serves as a member of the boards of directors of several private companies. 

Mr. Vassallo holds an M.B.A. from Stanford University, an M.S. in Electromechanical Engineering from Stanford University, and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Eric Vishria
General Partner of Benchmark and Cerebras Lead Independent Director

Eric Vishria has been a non-executive member of our board of directors since May 2016, serves as our Lead Independent Director, and serves on our Audit Committee. 

Mr. Vishria has served as a General Partner of Benchmark, a venture capital firm, since July 2014. From August 2013 to August 2014, Mr. Vishria served as Vice President, Digital Magazines and Verticals at Yahoo! Inc., a web services provider. From November 2008 to August 2013, Mr. Vishria served as co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of RockMelt, Inc., a social media web browser. He has served as a member of the board of directors of Confluent, Inc. (NASDAQ: CFLT), a data solutions company, since September 2014. Mr. Vishria previously served as a member of the board of directors of Amplitude, Inc., a digital optimization company. He also serves as a member of the boards of directors of several private companies. 

Mr. Vishria holds a B.S. in Mathematical and Computational Science from Stanford University.

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